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Este libro centra su interés en la dinámica evolución de la fotografía en Cuba durante los años finales del pasado siglo XX. Dentro de este apasionante periodo, el autor ha analizado con especial intensidad el giro que experimenta el medio fotográfico al transformar su conocido valor documental y convertirse en soporte esencial de la práctica artística. Para abordar esta decisiva mutación, Carlos Tejo ha llevado a cabo un detenido estudio de los agitados cambios que a nivel social y político se suceden en la isla a partir del triunfo de la Revolución y de las causas y agentes fundamentales de estos nuevos itinerarios de lo fotográfico. En esta última parte, se examina en profundidad el trabajo de un representativo grupo de artistas que entienden el cuerpo como herramienta fundamental de su expresión. Así, a través de la emocionante obra de Marta María Pérez Bravo, René Peña, Abigail González, Eduardo Hernández Santos y Cirenaica Moreira, Carlos Tejo propone al lector un estimulante viaje que le descubrirá todal la riqueza de la idiosincrasia cubana
Picturing Cuba explores the evolution of Cuban visual art and its links to cubanía, or Cuban cultural identity. Featuring artwork from the Spanish colonial, republican, and postrevolutionary periods of Cuban history, as well as the contemporary diaspora, these richly illustrated essays trace the creation of Cuban art through shifting political, social, and cultural circumstances. Contributors examine colonial-era lithographs of Cuba’s landscape, architecture, people, and customs that portrayed the island as an exotic, tropical location. They show how the avant-garde painters of the vanguardia, or Havana School, wrestled with the significance of the island’s African and indigenous roots, and they also highlight subversive photography that depicts the harsh realities of life after the Cuban Revolution. They explore art created by the first generation of postrevolutionary exiles, which reflects a new identity—lo cubanoamericano, Cuban-Americanness—and expresses the sense of displacement experienced by Cubans who resettled in another country. A concluding chapter evaluates contemporary attitudes toward collecting and exhibiting post-revolutionary Cuban art in the United States. Encompassing works by Cubans on the island, in exile, and born in America, this volume delves into defining moments in Cuban art across three centuries, offering a kaleidoscopic view of the island’s people, culture, and history. Contributors: Anelys Alvarez | Lynnette M. F. Bosch | María A. Cabrera Arús | Iliana Cepero | Ramón Cernuda | Emilio Cueto | Carol Damian | Victor Deupi | Jorge Duany | Alison Fraunhar | Andrea O’Reilly Herrera | Jean-François Lejeune | Abigail McEwen | Ricardo Pau-Llosa | E. Carmen Ramos
The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come. Its coverage is global – an important ‘first’ in that authorities from all over the world have contributed their expertise and scholarship towards making this a truly comprehensive publication. The Encyclopedia presents new and ground-breaking research alongside accounts of the major established figures in the nineteenth century arena. Coverage includes all the key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings which helped photography develop from being ‘a solution in search of a problem’ when first invented, to the essential communication tool, creative medium, and recorder of everyday life which it had become by the dawn of the twentieth century. The sheer breadth of coverage in the 1200 essays makes the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography an essential reference source for academics, students, researchers and libraries worldwide.
FotoFest 1992, a major festival of international photography, brought Latin American photography into focus for a wide audience. Offering a diverse selection of photographers, countries, artistic movements, and subject matter, the show revealed a photographic tradition rich in history and creativity. Drawing from the more than 1,000 images exhibited by FotoFest, this book documents the work of fifty-two photographers from ten countries. The photographs range from the opening of the Brazilian frontier in the 1880s to a secret archive of documentary images from El Salvador's recent civil war to works of specifically aesthetic intent. Many of the photographs appear here in print for the first time. Watriss's opening essay provides the curatorial overview for the book. Lois Zamora examines the roots of visual image-making in Latin American cultures. Boris Kossoy addresses the history of Latin American photography through the nineteenth century, while Fernando Castro covers the contemporary scene. With its compelling images and English-Spanish text, this book will serve as a benchmark for future studies of photography in Latin America.
"The collection of photographs of Anna Gamazo de Abelló was conceived on the basis of two criteria: geographical (it embraces Latin America and Spain), and chronological (it consists solely of photographs taken after the beginning of the twentieth century).This book is limited to the Latin American context. The collection reflects the diversity of influences to which the different regions are subject. The works of Francisco Toledo and Martín Chambi, for example, draw on the indigenous legacies of Mexico and Peru; those of Horacio Coppola and Paolo Gasparini reflect its European ancestry; and the documentary images of José Luis Venegas in Tijuana show the influence of the United States. Rather than attempt to give an idea of Latin American photography as a whole, we have sought to isolate significant groups of work by a small number of artists, such as Gabriel Orozco, Milagros de la Torre, and Juan Manuel Echavarría"--Publisher.
Written by some of the best-known independent scholars, citizen journalists, cyber-activists, and bloggers living in Cuba today, this book presents a critical, complete, and unbiased overview of contemporary Cuba. In this era of ever-increasing globalization and communication across national borders, Cuba remains an isolated island oddly out of step with the rest of the world. And yet, Cuba is beginning to evolve via the important if still insufficient changes instituted by Raul Castro, who became president in 2008. This book supplies a uniquely independent, accurate, and critical perspective in order to evaluate these changes in the context of the island's rich and complex history and culture. Organized into seven topical chapters that address geography, history, politics and government, economics, society, culture, and contemporary issues, readers will gain a broad, insightful understanding of one of the most unusual, fascinating, and often misunderstood nations in the Western Hemisphere.